Avant-garde Italian director makes musicians get naked for art. It's weird. It's horny. It's 1969.
In all of his work, Bussotti makes frequent reference to the body, to sexuality. This to remind musicians — especially classically trained ones — that they are not body-less angels, that they are not just their musical thoughts, that they are still, in the last analysis, flesh and bones. Thus the erotic is not for shocking, but to stress that making music involves the body in a very direct way.
Direction
Bussotti's genuinely unhinged visual language
Production
Bodily fluids as legitimate mise-en-scène
Director
Sylvano Bussotti
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bussotti was a leading figure in the Fluxus movement, which sought to dismantle boundaries between art forms and between artist and audience. RARA exemplifies this through its assault on classical music's disembodied pretensions.
The title 'RARA' refers to a 1916 Futurist sound poem by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, connecting Bussotti's bodily provocations to Italy's earlier avant-garde tradition of artistic radicalism.
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